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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia will meet Tuesday for their final scheduled one-on-one televised debate before the runoff election, following previous events that have grown contentious as the candidates try to land blows and build momentum before April 7. The 7 p.m. debate on WTTW-Ch. 11's "Chicago Tonight" program will mark the third time Emanuel and Garcia have debated head-to-head since no candidate got a majority of the votes in the first-round mayoral election in February. It follows a debate last week in which Garcia went on the offensive. He reminded the incumbent that he's "not the king of the city" while...

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia will meet Tuesday for their final scheduled one-on-one televised debate before the runoff election, following previous events that have grown contentious as the candidates try to land blows...

The “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P.D.” franchise will have expansion on its mind over the next few weeks.
Wolf Films – the Dick Wolf production company behind both Chicago procedural dramas – will use the 19th episode of the current “Chicago Fire”...

The Illinois Film Office has a new director. Gov. Bruce Rauner has appointed GOP political consultant Christine Dudley, who steps into a job that primarily focuses on luring TV and film projects to Illinois.
Dudley takes over for Betsy Steinberg, who ran...

Betsy Steinberg, who has headed up the Illinois Film Office since 2007, was notified this week that her services are no longer needed, she confirmed Wednesday. Her last day in the office will be Friday.
A change in leadership is not unexpected when a new...

Media was invited last month to meet with the casts of NBC’s “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago PD” at Cinespace Film Studios on the Near West Side and take a bus tour of some filming locations. The six-hour experience was informative and included stops at the...

I've probably said it before, but originality is overrated.
Which is why the most valuable tool in any enterprise's development arsenal just may be a feather duster, to make presentable something it already has and consumers already know.
This is true...

The Dick Wolf-produced NBC dramas “Chicago PD” “Chicago Fire” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” are teaming up for a three-episode crossover storyline this season, as some of you already know. Filming on the crossover has begun, with the “PD”...

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Job seekers are invited to attend the JobMarketPlace Job Fair on May 22 sponsored by the College of Lake County Career and Placement Services office. The fair will be held from 1-5 p.m. in the P.E. Center, Building 7, 19351 W. Washington St, Grayslake....

With the new TV season upon us, let's step back and look at the new shows based out of Chicago (an unprecedented six TV series are here this fall), plus shows filming elsewhere that feature Chicago actors.
First, what's shooting in town:
NBC
The...

It's difficult to tell who should be more excited NBC officially picked up “Chicago Fire” for a second season Friday: The cast and crew of the firefighter drama or the Illinois Film Office.
The good news allows the Dick Wolf-produced show to...

NBC, which renewed “Chicago Fire” last month for a second season, has announced that it is also picking up the show’s police-themed spinoff.
“Chicago PD”--from the same people who make “Chicago Fire,” including producer Dick Wolf and creators Derek...

After a couple of decades of centering his TV empire on New York, the home of "Law & Order" and most of its spinoffs, the veteran producer Dick Wolf has suddenly become a man of the Midwest.
His new pair of shows — not an empire yet, but...

There's an old Rudyard Kipling quote about Chicago I haven't heard for a while that shows up in the new NBC drama "Chicago PD," a show that looks to portray police work the old school way: tough, dirty and not without personal costs. Will you...

The state won't have the official numbers crunched until this spring, but Gov. Pat Quinn's office is already touting an estimate of $358 million in TV and film revenues in 2013, a jump from 2012's $184 million.
The estimated revenue (meaning, money spent...

And the anti-hero trend on television continues.
The new trailer for NBC’s “Chicago PD” – a spinoff for fellow Dick Wolf-produced series, “Chicago Fire,” now in its second season – shows protagonist and shady sergeant Hank Voight (played by Jason...

The Dick Wolf-produced NBC dramas "Chicago Fire” and “Chicago PD” will join forces for a two-part, crossover storyline this season revolving around a terrorist attack on Chicago. Wolf recently revealed the storyline was inspired by the Oklahoma...

It might be premature to compare the “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago PD” franchise with the long-running “Law & Order” franchise, but the similarities are there. Both NBC franchises were created by legendary producer Dick Wolf. Both involve public...

Gold Coast resident Yanina Beccaria and her partner Ken Barrington won season 2 of the Jenny McCarthy-hosted NBC reality show “Love in the Wild” Tuesday -- just as many had expected.
The couple clicked from the beginning, unlike other contestants who...

The three minute trailer for the upcoming NBC drama “Chicago Fire” features firefighters battling flames in a collapsing building, a firefighter receiving a “Pulp Fiction”-like needle through the chest, and two people sucking face in the shower, but...

Until recently, the Vera Wang bridal shop in Singapore imposed a non-refundable $482 fee to try on dresses. And last month a health food retailer in Australia posted this notice on its door: “As of the first of February, this store will be charging people...